Amrita C
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I write difficult stories. See this - https://amritachowdhury.com and this - https://ammanc.substack.com/.
Interesting things a-brewing! Jake O will be posting a larger call later on @oratoriamag.bsky.social, but wanted to get this out here first. We're looking for fiction readers (but also secretly editors) for a labour-of-love #litmag. Feel free to DM! #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
Morning #5amwritersclub! Almost a year ago I wrote this. I'd started writing after a five year hiatus (which was a result of getting steamrolled by life). But I started and couldn't stop till I had a full novel out of it. Fun read. #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorsky #booksky #writerscommunity
What a Year of Writing Taught Me
Or How I learned to embrace the insanity, accidentally write a novel, and develop an unhealthy relationship with Google Drive
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Work took everything today, but hello to the #5amwritersclub anyway. Snippet from a piece I'm editing. Very meta. Because I could certainly do with a weep, tf is booj, I can't understand anything either, and I also need a drink. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity #authorsky #writesky
50,000 so far. I check word counts less and less nowadays, as if only the full version of the story will bring me joy. Celebrating my own small wins is getting harder. Tell me how are your works progressing #5amwritersclub, so I can celebrate yours! #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorsky #writesky
Hello #5amwritersclub, the first big girl apartment will always be a fond memory. Slicing fingers open on cutters, swallowing Sellotape and eating khichdi in the middle of the night under battering rain. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice
Glue and Other Highs
The first apartment where I wrote novels and burnt khichdi
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Finally getting to this one. Got this from an old bookshop almost a year ago and completely forgot because it got shoved behind the shelf. #avisitfromthegoonsquad #booklovers #readingcommunity #litfic #booksky #amwriting #tbr
Sometimes I'll read my own stuff to remind myself that they have found loving homes of their own. Excerpt from "Five in a Suitcase" in @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social Read here: leonliteraryreview.com/issue-36-amr... #amwriting #litfic #litmag #writingcommunity #shortstories #writerscommunity
Hi #5amwritersclub. Was struggling to draft the last few days. No urgent ideas left for the story. Thought I'd start reverse outlining. Then one of the 7 voices in my head said hold my neurons. Muthafuckaa pulled up with 13 new scenes. Brb. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky
I chat with Ange on ruthless protagonists, getting structure & pacing right, & the ups and downs of self-publishing a debut novel. Ep 04 of #TheDeepList is now up! 👉Spotify - tinyurl.com/amshilling-s... @gunsmile.bsky.social #amwriting #writingcommunity #wrtierscommunity #writingpodcast #podcast
Writing Villain Protagonists in a John Wick meets Lovecraft Thriller
Author A.M. Shilling on Episode 04 of The Deep List
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Good morning #5amwritersclub! Here's hoping I'll be successful today raging about my mental issues in the name of writing and be able to pass them off as fiction! #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky
Have you used Zach Cregger's underpaid-overworked-elf method to draft yet? Sits perfectly with my free writing (as it will with outlining too) and it is all I'm going to use from now on. On today's blog. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingadvice #authorsky #writerscommunity #fiction
July Writerly Things
Book recommendations, writing exercises and debut releases
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Today is 'copy' day #5amwritersclub. I take a break from my own writing and copy a significant work of a significant author word-for-word. Mindlessly, rote like. And it's one the most powerful ways I know to improve my skills. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky
Lemme have your WIP update everyone. How many words have you written in the last month and which WIP is at what stage? I'm at 40K for my novel. 45 days. Will reverse outline for all the non-urgent ideas that remain in my head. #writingprompt #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity
Jaggydohwhift: Boy's Pout
ALT: Jaggydohwhift: Boy's Pout
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Morning #5amwritersclub. Let me tell you that Odysseus had it easy. He got home quicker than anyone using the London Underground. #amwriting #odysseus #movielovers #humor #writingcommunity #authorsky
Christopher Nolan talking about Satyajit Ray is now one of my favourite things on the internet. I, a Bengali, grew up with Ray's brilliant works and every time I finish a piece I wildly imagine him reading it and giving me feedback. 🫣 #amwriting #nolan #movielovers #writingcommunity #booksky
Christopher Nolan just revealed he’s a big fan of Satyajit Ray 📽️ #christophernolan #satyajitray
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#SummerofStories: 27! The political romantic tragedy I finished 15 years ago. 2 more drama-speculative novels I have jotted ideas for. An experimental novella I've thought about for ages, that I want to serialise. And so many short stories. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #Fiction
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · last wk.27 | What are some ideas for stories you've had that never quite made it onto paper? Any monumentally daunting epics you'd like to tackle one day? Be as specific or vague as you'd like, vibes/crossovers and genre(s)-only welcome! 😊 #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
When your own unhingedness at writing murderous protags makes you nervous so you quickly take a break and watch The Other Bennet Sister to chase the doom away. Also, the man made crack-level pizza, y'all. #amwriting #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #writerscommunity #writerslife #authorsky
Talking to mum about GoddessWIP, life in the query trenches, short story submissions, the podcast, the pending ARCs, the critique match up moderation and she says: you realise you're living in the world you want to live in? 🥹 #amwriting #writingcommunity #amquerying #writerscommunity #authorsky
Super fun conversation with @gunsmile.bsky.social today 😍. Stay tuned for Friday! #TheDeepList is available on Spotify, YT and Substack over at @oratoriamag.bsky.social. #podcast #writingpodcast #writingcommunity #amwriting #booklovers #booksky #indieauthor #selfpublishing #readingcommunity
Oratoria Magazine@oratoriamag.bsky.social · last wk.We chat with author A.M. Shilling on writing villain protagonists, structure and pacing, for her debut novel, The Devouring. Ep 04 of #TheDeepList podcast releasing 31 July! 🎧 Spotify: tinyurl.com/spotify-shil... #writingpodcast #indieauthor #podcast #writingcommunity #selfpub #smallpress #podcast
Me, writing longhand: This is the easiest way to finish a first draft! Me, after writing longhand: Shit, now I have to digitise it. Me, after digitising it: Hello, carpal tunnel syndrome! Desk today. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky #writesky #5amwritersclub #writerslife
#SummerofStories: 25 I have, quite possibly, 11 different voices in my head, so I rarely run out of juice to write. I'll write even when I don't have ideas. But cooking is a stress buster and on burning out, I paint. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #ArtLovers #AuthorSky
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · 2w ago25 | When you juuust can't find the inspiration or motivation to write, what other creative endeavors do you turn to? Drawing, painting, knitting, photography, music? Other hobbies? #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
Hi #5amwritersclub. Fresh off the personal column: "My TBR is no longer a list, it is evidence of financial irresponsibility and one day somebody is going to have to deal with it and it will not be me because I will be dead." #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorsky #writerscommunity #booklovers
On Not Writing or Reading
Or how a day of research can be addictive too
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Joanne Merriam's debut Aether & Ego is a Pride & Prejudice retelling in space within a steampunk setting and I'm already in love 😍 Ep03 of #TheDeepList is out now! 👉Spotify: tinyurl.com/tdl-joanne-m... @joannemerriam.bsky.social #amwriting #writingpodcast #booklovers #booksky #readingcommunity
Pride & Prejudice in Space. On a Centrifugal Ship.
Author Joanne Merriam on Episode 03 of The Deep List
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Let's talk #Substack x #Pangram. I see the issue & I see the solution for what it is. Without judgement or wild guesswork, how many of you are thinking of migrating to #Ghost or other platforms? Do you want to migrate at all? #amwriting #AIwriting #writingcommunity #blogger #writesky #AI #blogging
I, Robot AI Gaze
ALT: I, Robot AI Gaze
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I know it's #5amwritersclub but I just want to sleep for another 200 hours and not think of chapter endings 😭 Also a great big good luck to all those doing #QuestPit today! #writingcommunity #amwriting #authorsky #writerscommunity
Captain America Salutes: Good Luck!
ALT: Captain America Salutes: Good Luck!
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The ARC for this one's on all my devices for the next week! Can't wait to review. Lyvia Martinez was such a pleasure to talk to on the podcast 😍 🎧Have a listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0L75... #YA #amwriting #booksky #booklovers #bookclub #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #bookreview
It's been a year since I wrote this absolute banger of a sentence: "She walked through the tunnel while walking." And one of my betas left very appropriate, very sobering, actionable feedback. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #writerscommunity #authorsky #5amwritersclub #litfic
#5amwritersclub and I'm on one of my favourite things to do. Scouring indie publisher catalogues, because this is where the strange, fresh blood, unhinged take, bitterly delicious, cackling alive stuff lives. #amwriting #authorsky #smallpress #indieauthor #writingcommunity #writesky #booklovers
#SummerOfStories 22 My first drafts are a mix of longhand, digital, bullet points, dialogue snippets, full chapters, links to research, all written out of order. I write till the story tells itself. When it stops telling itself, engineering takes over. #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · 2w ago22 | Writing process: do you start with an outline, character background/bio(s), world-building, first lines? Do you tend to write chronologically or jump around as needed? Bonus: what environment do you need/like to write in? #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
